Quotes About Insight

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read...

What seems to be coming at you is really coming from you

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

We never cared for such useless things as knowledge. We only cared for truth. And our unsophisticated little hearts knew well where the Crystal Palace of Truth lay and how to reach it. But to-day we are expected to write pages of facts, while the truth is simply this: "There was a king.

The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena.

The traveller has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end. My eyes strayed far and wide before I shut them and said, "Here art thou!" The question and the cry, "Oh, where?" melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance, "I am!" XIII

Everyone's nature is not alike. Because you have found your convictions within yourself and can take refuge in your own strength, you fail to realize the predicament of others.

The literature of the new age seeks not to narrate a sequence of events, but to reveal the secrets of the heart.

And likewise I was beginning to see my own fears and desires manifested outside myself, was beginning to see in other people's lives a commentary on my own.

I had found out more, I said, by listening than I had ever thought possible.

literature has long since discovered and documented this place of which I thought myself to be the first inhabitant,…

It was her own capacity for story telling that made her see her own hand in what happened around her.

As Sophocles said it – how dreadful knowledge of the truth is, when the truth can't help you!

It was hard to listen while you were talking. I had found out more by listening than I had ever thought possible.

Writers need to hide in bourgeois life like ticks need to hide in an animal's fur: the deeper they're buried the better.

I mean, we have to read books or we'll make mistakes. If we read stories of how other people lived, we can figure out better ways to live. I mean we can look at other people's lives and not make the same mistakes they made. Or we can, like, use their examples as models for ourselves.

That's the thing about me. I prefer things once they're already over and I'm working on understanding them. I wish I were faster at that - like, I could understand things while they're happening - but I always have to read the whole book and write the entire paper before I even know what the hell I'm thinking.

You never learn the first time. You always have to get hit twice before you see it coming." He was seeing now what he'd seen that first night at Pure. A bright shiny light he wanted to catch in his hands and hold forever. If she let him.

It was best not to ask too many questions. Especially since you'd get the answers. And the answers were usually followed by a tightening of Kate's forehead and a tick in her left eye. The tightening could cause wrinkles, the tick a tumor, and Kate didn't need to borrow that kind of trouble.

You, of all people, understand the burden of having to prove that you are good enough to exist, that you are worth all the grief your mother caused everyone. Bastard equals monster in our hearts' respective lexicons; that's why you always had such insight into it.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.